That sort of worked. I got the same error message after deleting that
report, but it let me open it anyway. After that, I created the deleted
report and closed it down. When I restarted Gnucash, no issues. Thanks
very much.
chris.
On 9/19/24 12:12, John Ralls wrote:
It looks like you left a
Thanks! It also looks like it is also a case of RTFM.
https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
Looks like this would be another way to recover.
Thanks so much for your detailed explanation.
/Ed
On Thu, Sep 19, 2024, at 10:12 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> It looks like you l
It looks like you left a report open and the option string saved in your state
file has a bad value. The state file has the same name as your .gnucash file
with a .gcm extension tacked on (i.e. “my-book.gnucash.gcm”) and is located in
GNC_DATA_HOME/books (see
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Confi
I recently had a desktop meltdown but I had my data backed up. I am
using Linux and gnucash version GnuCash 5.8, Build ID: 5.8+(2024-07-06)
When I try to open it, I get a message stating some other user has the
file locked. When I tell it to open read-only or open anyway, it
crashes. My comman